A New Sci-Fi TV Show, Anyone?
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Don't forget also coming in the fall Questor by a joint production from Roddenberry productions,and Imagine Entertainment.
Warehouse13 in second season right now great episodes so far,and in September season 10 of Smallville,and that too is shaping up to be blockbuster IMO.
I might record The cape's pilot,and watch occasional episode,but not support it.
That's all from me on this topic.
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Buck Rogers
Warehouse13 in second season right now great episodes so far,and in September season 10 of Smallville,and that too is shaping up to be blockbuster IMO.
I might record The cape's pilot,and watch occasional episode,but not support it.
That's all from me on this topic.
Signed
Buck Rogers
Except when that describes 3/4ths of all sci fi shows.
Despite the long lists of sci-fi and pseudo-sci-fi shows that a couple of posters have just supplied, I agree with the OP's general sense that there isn't anything that really ticks the box just now.
What I mean by "ticks the box" is something that stretches your mind, that posits an environment seemingly without limitations that can encompass micro-scale character development plots and in the next episode, take you to the brink of a credible end-of-the-universe, no-really, the-hero-is-not-guaranteed-to-win type situation.
The only ones I can think of within the last ten years (just) that did that were Farscape and Firefly.
I liked Trek (obviously) but we're all thoroughly over-dosed on it now. Time for a crash diet... thank you JJ Abrams for providing the motivation!
I liked Stargate (except for any episode with Jonas in it). Atlantis was good too because characters can be all you really need sometimes, but it aged much quicker than its parent because it wasn't doing anything new. Universe has just lost my interest, which is ironic as it's exactly what I used to think Stargate should be!
I liked the first two seasons of BSG. And that was it. And if that has put some peoples noses out of joint (I'm wearing my flame retardant underwear), then you'll love this... I can't watch Caprica because it's so predictable.
Eureka - bleh. Warehouse 13, read it in books years ago.
But then, isn't that the problem now? We've seen it all before!
I'm ruined and I'm sure I'm not the only one on here who is. Most of us no doubt spent our formative years reading the classics of science fiction literature which collectively contain the very same plot lines that so many writers are busy trotting out today, then patting themselves on the back for being so clever.
Which is why I thought Farscape and Firefly were both such a good effort, because they regularly surprised me in a way that almost nothing else did. Sure, Farscape was intermittently absolute dren and I watched a rerun on FX just a couple of days ago (S4: What Was Lost) that I wouldn't have wiped my arse on, but I saw another one today that I loved every minute of (The Perfect Murder), and so it always was with that show. Flashes of brilliance that were all the brighter for being contrasted with the occasional Friday night job.
And while Farscape was stretching your brain across the cosmos, Firefly was busy engaging you up to the ear lobes in a brilliantly written character-based story with more than enough action to satisfy anyone except maybe those jaded, soulless ratings-whores who run Fox.
So perhaps that's what we need to do! We need to feed Farscape a bucket full of randy molluscs, get Firefly really drunk, then lock them both in a room without access to contraception and see what emerges...
It sounds more like you want a space opera and are unhappy that no space operas exist. Every "good" show you listed is a space-opera.
What we need is a space based show where the ship is crewed by vampires, werewolves, zombies, fairies, elves, etc, and captained by a regular old human having to deal with this supernatural menagerie.
True.
Except when that describes 3/4ths of all sci fi shows.
. It used to be "chase/quest shows" were the go to format for SF. Planet of the Apes, Logans Run, the Hulk,V and even Questor Tapes. Old BSG was a part chase show too. Then there was the guy with a gimmick. ( usually a SF/Spy or Cop cross) Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Invisible Man/Gemini Man, Automan, Greatest American Hero, MANTIS, Manimal... maybe I should stop there, 
AMC's The Walking Dead looks promising.
The last space opera universe that really grabbed me was Firefly. And that was 8 years ago. JJ Abrams take on Trek gives me hope that more space opera SF TV will be greenlit. Of course, I'd love a new Trek series, but it isnt likely to happen for a long time.
Why we won't be seeing Star Wars on TV: Lucas says it will cost too much.
He can't even bank on the Star Wars brand to get him 2-3M viewers?
With Lucas' philosophy of letting SFX try to compensate for poor writing and acting, yeah, I guess he couldn't do anything on, say, BSG's budget.
He can't even bank on the Star Wars brand to get him 2-3M viewers?Ugh, it's UPN's Special Unit 2 all over again, this time, make one of the leads a Link.Zombies and Vampires on NBC (and no, not just in the executive suite).
The other cop is a secret zombie!!! I called it first!!!!
Depends of how they're treated. I AM LEGEND by Matheson is horror and sf. So is FEVRE DREAM by George R. R. Martin, and THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY by Suzy McKee Charnas, and DARKER THAN YOU THINK by Jack Williamson.
Just to name a few . . . .
The hits just keep on coming! 
Dweeb cast as lead in Three Inches.
It's a foregone conclusion that this show will be in the unwatchable-cutesy-treacle mode of Eureka/Warehouse 13/Haven. Yet another one I don't need to bother with.
The vampires and zombies are looking better all the time.
Dweeb cast as lead in Three Inches.It's a foregone conclusion that this show will be in the unwatchable-cutesy-treacle mode of Eureka/Warehouse 13/Haven. Yet another one I don't need to bother with.
The vampires and zombies are looking better all the time.
I have to admit, I haven't really gotten into what Sci Fi has to offer with shows like Eureka or Warehouse 13. However, in the hopes to recapture the whole BSG thing, I did watch Caprica and so far it's been disappointing. I too want to see more of a space based (And no I haven't gotten into Stargate Universe mainly because I didn't watch any of the other Stargates) show. There are none out there now other than Doctor Who and even that one is more planet based. Would just love to see something space based, but based one what I've heard, that doesn't seem to happen anytime soon.
If this keeps up, the zombies will outnumber the vampires! ANOTHER zombie show!
WTF - zombie reality TV? 
That's either the worst idea of all time or the best.
More news!
American version of Torchwood gets a stupid name!
Also, it's a reboot. Is that a good thing or a bad thing or a thing that will cause the Earth to crack in half?
Camelot adds sexxxxxy James Purfoy to the cast (damn, do I have to subscribe to Starz now?)
I predict that genre fans will soon forgive Joseph Fiennes for FlashForward because he'll make a great Merlin, to whit:
Camelot is going to be the best...show...EVER!
That's either the worst idea of all time or the best.More news!
American version of Torchwood gets a stupid name!
Also, it's a reboot. Is that a good thing or a bad thing or a thing that will cause the Earth to crack in half?
Hmm, that quote appears to be mangled. I'm sure he meant worse... right?
Camelot adds sexxxxxy James Purfoy to the cast (damn, do I have to subscribe to Starz now?)
Yay! He'll be a great baddie!
I predict that genre fans will soon forgive Joseph Fiennes for FlashForward because he'll make a great Merlin, to whit:
Camelot is going to be the best...show...EVER!
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Although they call it a reboot, the description they give of the current state of the Torchwood organization is consistent with how Children of Earth ended. So if it is a reboot, it's a very loose one.
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